international journalists including and all seeing news crews come under rubble fire while covering the conflict in syria. also this hour you are so human rights groups cried foul after the white house allows the military to keep detaining terror suspects indefinitely without charge or trial. design t.e.'s sentiment rises to new levels across britain the country's prime minister promises to get on board with the movement before the next election.

international news and comment live from moscow this is all she was me you know of all of a hello and welcome to the program several international journalists including an aussie arabic news crew of how to close a brush with death while covering the conflict in syria they came under rebel sniper fire as they accompanies the military on a counter insurgency sweep one of our colleagues come else was injured while running for cover and here's his account. we arrived at the damascus suburb early in the morning to report on the syrian army operation we were moving from street to street and when we reached the dock my colleagues and i got caught in crossfire we tried to escape running one after another fearing that armed rebels would notice us a syrian army soldier company the entire time he constantly kept his on the situation and helped us to escape the gunfire the rebels were firing on us

bulletproof bass with the word press on them the firing was very intense and it was difficult to find shelter i ran and fell down i hurt my arms but the syrian army doctors gave me first aid on the scene so i could continue to do my job there were many other correspondents there with me including iranians and syrians one of the syrian cameramen was also slightly wounded like me and while a car bomb blast has ripped through a petrol station packed with people in the syrian capital at least eleven have been killed and dozens injured u.s. war correspondent ross baker says such attacks a typical of the western backed opposition trying to bring down i think there's going to be a lot of in the way of covert operations as sponsored by outside parties that have a stake in haste to name some sort of a resolution of the situation on the surface that western countries and including

my own have stepped up their involvement and want to get assad out as fast as possible and these are the sorts of things that we've seen historically going all the way back to the tamal in the one nine hundred fifty s. in iran and so forth these sorts of provocations are very very common i think we're going to see them increase until something or other is resolved there a pretty clearly i think the western countries don't want any kind of pathway measures they want him out entirely and i think he is not going to do that until the last possible moment. u.s. human rights groups are venting a big government after president obama extends the military's authority to ident to indefinitely i should say detain terror suspects including americans without charge or trial the national defense authorization act of twenty also allows for the notorious gone tunnel bay military prison to remain open despite the president's own pledge to shut down the facility years ago activists say the x.

means obama has failed to the first test of his second term even before we know duration day. and congressman dennis kucinich things the moose part of a tendency that undermines democracy. there are great human rights concerns here. held indefinitely violates a constitutional privilege that people have. we have a constitutional challenge here where not only the national. defense authorization act but the patriot act and other legislation have gradually moved america away from a robust. freedom to a more limited freedom that is based on proscriptions by the government this is more than problematic because what has always amazed made america america is

is the fact that we follow our constitution and we protect our constitution and we protect people against unreasonable search and seizure we protect people against being seized without right to. know the charges against them or a right to an attorney or a right to a trial we have in the past condemned government being involved in spying now we have a much broader. spy network this is something that is profoundly anti-democratic i have repeatedly taken exception to it as a member of congress. that haven't got things it's ironic how washington is putting the squeeze on freedoms while trying to teach other countries a lesson and came right. currently in the us courts there is in fact a case moving it's on appeal right now the government has appealed it but a judge earlier and in two thousand and twelve had actually enjoined it so i issued

in junction making it so that provision this provision that for indefinite detention was actually not something that the government could use now the obama administration is defending that in the court workers think a lot of people in the united states know as much about what just happened given that happened during the holidays it's fair to say that the united states should probably not be lecturing other countries about how you know they protect human rights or how they protect civil liberties especially when there are many policies in the united states that they are not able to you know they're they're not really good policies on their own they're not protecting civil liberties of the united states citizens and they're they're not protecting the human rights of united states citizens and he you thieving is holding embrace somewhere on the jurors have citizens now feel that the country would be better off outside of the trouble getting in prime minister david cameron has evolved to adopt

a clear euro skeptic position to remain in tune with the people and my colleague spoke on this issue to the point of boycotting wanting. they even use popularity at a very very low amongst the british public at the moment we just had a poll that asked respondents to grade institutions like in school and the european union got an average grade of a d. plus from the british public that's not very very high now or a more serious note this recent poll it's really marked a tipping point because for the first time in decades the number of people that say that they would vote for britain leaving the european union is the majority of the british public so it's really turning britain turning into a nation of real euro skeptics at the moment and it's not just the result of one poll we've seen things like for example british support for political parties anti european ones like the u.k. independence party it's at an all time high so lots of bad news for pro europeans

at the moment so what is the main grudge that many people are holding against. well the british public has always been very divided over membership anyway but the past year has been particularly difficult we've seen you know the chronic financial crisis in the eurozone with a real loss of confidence that grows at the same time at home they have crippling austerity measures so there's a growing resentment towards the vast sums of money that leaves the british treasury and come straight from the u.k. budget goes straight to brussels every year when very terrible love project cuts. it's not just the money there's also the aspect to control it north that. many people want to see returned back to westminster this. way to the top of the u.k. doesn't it right at the top of political levels. well indeed david cameron the prime minister has just said that the conservative party is going to be going into

the next general election in twenty fifteen as a euro skeptic party is an anti european political party that really shows that you know the government's banking on the fact that the british public is are you going to get rich set up with british membership in and that they're really confident that that's going to happen confidence is responding to the way that britain is giving the cold shoulder transition well it can't be too pleasant listening to all this negativity about yourself because there are reports flying around now that. senior members of the european parliament want to offer britain a junior membership status associate membership and it would in fact be a bit of a demotion whereby britain since its grumbling so much over its membership in the european union it would have much less influence over issues within the european union itself so it's got all the hallmarks of a relationship going quite sour and now it's either going to be

a question of who dumps who fussed or not salvageable but with public opinion turning towards britain getting out it's going to be harder and harder to stay in. more stories just ahead for you this hour including taming to bed and separate is something in a few minutes that chinese blonds to solve problems out by pumping money in as a tries to integrate one of its most arrested regions into the rest of the country . struggling to deliver it's been over seven months since his dramatic retraining the presidential race but how socialist francois hollande really want i with a french people found out and just a few minutes. something . law is beneath.

thousands of meters of. draw. that is a use for many. but dangerous even to those who keep it to a distance. the news today volunteers once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day.

this is also the welcome back for years people in tibet have protested chinese rule over their land often taking drastic measures to do so with twenty eight self-immolation as reported last november alone but since bloody demonstrations four years ago beijing has been trying to integrate tibet into the rest of the country boosting subsidies and investment trying is now pumping almost fifty billion dollars into the region to win the support of the population. now reports. the communist party of china a slogan so widespread into but it's even displayed on taxis here everything is an ambiguous mix of modern technology and tradition communism and religion. double is in the six his son is a buddhist monk but ten years ago this elderly man joined the communist bangalore

do i knew that the party is breathing new life into our nation and the margins your time in the capital where shops and businesses sit beneath the monasteries on the hills this is quite a normal scene for us every day even as gather in the city center to pray right outside what is traditions are very strong here but at the same time chinese national red flags are hanging almost on every poll in every building as a constant reminder which country tibet is a part of. for decades china has been accused of occupying tibet and destroying its culture human rights organizations report numerous abuses there on a daily basis some are even willing to go to the most extreme measures in protest in almost all instances protests are put down through violence so chinese security personnel will come in and more use violence to to basically stop those protests

we've documented cases where the chinese state news lethal force against tibetans in one town fifteen people were shot local authorities denial of geishas of human rights violations claiming the so often malaysians are organized from abroad accusing the worst of a full scale media assault on china the united states has been using to bat for. six decades now and says the truman administration co-opted to fight communism and they will continue. this because their modus operandi these days seems to be human rights violations over the years china spent over sixty billion euros dollars to build schools roads and water supplies as well as developing industries from beer factories to cultural workshops. outside the capital in one of tibet's most ancient temples when we ask the monk what he thinks

of the exile of their spiritual leader the dalai lama he surprisingly said he didn't hear. the government supplies clothes food and other necessities not the dalai lama i couldn't care less where he was this. it's not easy going on the ground it's gorgeous you want street. view but what's crucial for the next generation of tibetans is that the mix of ancient traditions and beijing's billion . orgy tibet. and let's now take a look at some other news from around the world this hour that is all as a leader chavez has suffered respiratory failure following a council peroration in cuba that's according to one of the country's top officials it was earlier reported that he was suffering complications caused by a lung infection but as well as vice president has tried the trial this is fully conscious under the constitution of the socialist president is usually sworn in for a third term next week. a suicide bomb attack

south of the iraqi capital has killed at least twenty seven shiite pilgrims they were on their way from the holy city of karbala are what tens of thousands have been attending annual rituals and mourning that time for those almost two weeks of sunni protest against the current shia prime minister nuri al maliki the latest violence homelife to continue sectarian tensions that threaten to further divide the country. protest march in the tree and power show commemorating the controversial death of a man who trained and turned violent with about a dozen people arrested the twenty two year old who was shot dead by police in two thousand and eight during a land dispute in the south of the country. indians are present about five percent of treeless population and have clashed sporadically reveal sources for years. israel has announced it's going to build a new barrier along the occupied golan heights the reason it says it is to protect

its citizens from the ongoing violence in syria that the jurors state has completed the bulk of the work on a fence separating itself from egypt aimed at rooting out illegal migration and earlier my colleague bill dots spoke to actually this dramatic dreamer who believes these actions have nothing to do with the safety. israel has. to recalculate what they are doing in the middle east israel dealing with the middle east or dominating power and they try all the time to build war walls around then themselves claiming that the people is hating them and they are targeting them as israel has been harmed the whole region and the area around israel we are building the wall around the palestinian areas we claim that it's for security but at the end that one of the worst apartheid systems and get was around the palestinian people that look people have seen it in forty percent of their land they build world around gods and they turn get them into a jail the biggest prison in the world i mean we know how the diversity that if you

wait in gaza they are still occupying syria and they are building a wall on the occupied land so they want to keep this land that to keep them says that if you fire. it's not the solution that you keep building walls you need to do peace with the region you have to write to the people israel can't build its future on the expense of the people of the region and at the end building walls to protect the to protect themselves. is not going to protect israel's people's rights and they will keep claiming the rights israel's merged visible wall is its barrier separating israel from the palestinians while it's also of course building settlements in the area how do you see that situation develop if you think there could be any compromise over this very contentious issue you know you see that you see what how the artist collating given the building the settlements in the west bank and the building it in a way to control the palestinian people and this is what is leading it and pushing it for the explosion we witness in the settlers attacking the palestinians every

day and many villages this is north of the jordan valley is evacuated now by now by the israeli. attack on the people in the south of settlers attacking the people in the middle areas so they are russian war on the palestinian people and they want the walls at the end to to bring peace to them stealing the people's land looking them in. their life is not going to bring peace in any way must realize that their years change and they must they must understand this change the need for them to conciliate with the people deal with the people i don't we don't consider yourself as part of europe or do you want to isolate yourself and look yourself within the walls from the region you can do that and then just seven months since french voters invested their hopes for change and socialist francois hollande trusting him to steer the country out of story economic waters but as i. found out less than

again office it appears the president has already lost a lot of the momentum that swept into power. the debate on whether gay marriage should be allowed has split french society for years with protests about the issue often ending in violence with francois hollande coming to power the gay community breathed a sigh of relief but it may have been too soon activists say the new law which is going through parliament in january is not exactly what they've been dreaming of but we are. very happy that draft flow has been introduced by the government to open marriage to same sex couples and adoption and supposedly. medically assisted procreation but we're still very concerned because. people against same sex marriage same sex equality are getting very strong including in the parliament. in the new issue of mayors were obliged to officially register gay

couples marital status and that's where many revolted including francois labelle the mayor of central paris. allowing same sex marriages in france and moreover permitting them to adopt children will destroy the foundations of our family institution if we allow this now the next step will be allowing paedophilia and incest. so it seems in this scenario no side is completely happy which puts the french president and his electoral promise under serious pressure from bringing the french troops back from afghanistan to creating more jobs in france and preventing the country from going into austerity during his campaign to become a normal president francois hollande had made many promises some of which now experts say may backfire against the french leader and if the gay marriage law wasn't divisive enough all on splurge to impose

a seventy five percent tax on the wealthy may become another sticking point several million years have already decided to take their businesses out of france that's called a lot of problems and it does divide the country because a lot of people realize that the rich aren't going so fast as financial problems everybody's going to have to solve france's national problems including socialist voters which of course frost all along when he was being elected gave the impression that this wouldn't happen the latest polls suggest all on spa people already has dropped by twenty percent winning the election we proved to be the far easier challenge than what awaits the french president now with the economic producers for twenty thirteen in front looking far from optimistic.

lots of twists in the case of the violent gang rape that sparks are pulling him out of the match as one of the alleged abusers could escape severe punishment even if found guilty find out why that's how to get out of. this is a else he talks to william binney a u.s. national security just a whistleblower about the ways that american government is spying on its citizens and here's a preview for you f.b.i. has access to the data collected which is basically the e-mails of virtually everybody in the country. and they have it at the f.b.i. has access to it all the congressional members are on on this surveillance to it's not no one's excluded they're all included so yes this could.

if they were targeted by the government the government can go in with the f.b.i. or. the way into their database pull all that they've collected over them on them over the years and reanalyze it also retroactively analyze everything they've done over the last ten years at least working one part and i'm sure i i i believe i've been on it for quite a few years. so i keep telling them everything i think of them in my e-mail so that they when they read it they'll understand what i think of them. coming up after a short break it's on the mountain on breaking the said don't go away.

ron paul has rejected the national rifle association safety plan and by safety plan the n.r.a. proposes basically turning every school in america into a prison camp so on this one ron paul i'm with you in the wake of the tragic events at sandy hook elementary and every vice president wayne la pierre called on congress to immediately appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every school so yeah what is the solution to isolated incidents of extreme violence make every child live their entire school life at gun point before putting armed guards in schools maybe we should take a look at the fact that more than twenty five percent of american kids are on medication and that's just the kids altering their mental state legally mom is

working two jobs so she isn't around there is a wall and the t.v. who's the new parent shows kids nothing but images glorifying violence for a vengeance torture when someone is getting harassed every day at school and maybe getting harassed at home they feel totally alone and they see no future and no escape from the hell that they're in they are going to take drastic measures to get out of it you know in the fifty's sixty's and seventy's there were still plenty of guns and there were no armed officers in schools but there were no shootings society changed and school violence erupted societies what needs to change to calm things back down but that's just my opinion. it. is. to get.

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white house of the day the radio guy in fort lauderdale minestrone probably one of the large clover about to do because you've never seen anything like this i'm told . some guys i'm having martin this is breaking the set i want to start today's show by telling you about a recent development as it relates to ding ding ding what else drones and targeted assassination federal judge on wednesday rejected a new york times for your request asking the u.s. government to disclose more information about who it's killing and why interestingly enough the judge appeared reluctant to rule on the side of the white house saying if the suppose you're going to help the public understand quote the vast and seemingly ever growing exercise in which we have been engaged for well over a decade great cost in lives treasure and personal liberty she even reference that

was almost an alice in wonderland like ruling me and some work reality when the government has created a legal framework to justify its illegal acts yet a work reality where war is peace ignorance is strength and freedom is slavery all came in one thousand and four during the protests that. the large number of jews or the job or she or anything like the term. so guys and ford. really america is no stranger to gun violence in fact if you turn on the t.v. recently it's likely you've been bombarded with something that looks like this there was a shooting at st vincent's hospital in birmingham this very morning leaving one dead and three others injured including a police officer we have some chilling new details about the deadly ambush of firefighters in upstate new york.